Bison Athletic Hall of Fame
Described as the most explosive running back in North Dakota State football history during his career ... Prominent part of two NCAA Division II national championship teams in 1988 and 1990 ... Two-time first team All-American ... Two-time first-team All-North Central Conference ... Finished as the second leading rusher in school history (now fifth all-time) with 3,212 regular season yards and tallied another 1,296 yards in 10 playoff appearances ... His 21 100-yard plus games was a school mark (now No. 2) and his total of 4,900 all-purpose yards is second-best in school history ... Ran for 1,907 all-purpose yards in 1989 in just 175 attempts to post an incredible 10.9 yards every time he touched the ball ... Finished his career with an average of 9.96 yards per carry in all-purpose for another school mark ... His 1,014 yards in 1990 was one of the top single-season rushing efforts in school history ... One of only four Bison to score five TDs in a single game vs. South Dakota State in 1988 … Averaged a school-record 8.8 yards per carry and 7.5 yards per carry over career, both school records … NFL tryout with the New York Giants in 1991 ... Named to Sports Illustrated's Top 50 North Dakota Sports Figures in December 1999 ... Four-sport athlete at Fargo South High School ... Member of four state championship teams in basketball (1985), football (1986), and track & field (1986-1987) ... Bally National High School All-American and Gatorade's North Dakota Player of the Year in 1986 ... Inducted into the South High School Hall of Fame in 2004 ... Graduated from NDSU in 1993 with a bachelor's degree in university studies ... Tony and his wife, Jenny, have two children, Paige (12) and Ty (10) ... Employed by Medtronics as a sales rep in the Spinal and Biologics Division in Eastern North Dakota since 2001.
